Today's reveal confirmed Bioware's continued dependency on taking overused sci-fi tropes and implementing them as plot devices in order to handwave/disregard the previously established universe.
I'd like to hear how the rest of the BSN feels about it. Please share and discuss.
Umm... the trailer revealed nothing about the game. No plot details, no dialogue, no explanations, nothing. How can they have descented into hack writing when the trailer had no writing to begin with?
If people think getting to Andromeda is too much a stretch then they should have stopped playing Mass Effect since ME1. Asari mind-melding, Element Zero which is a deus ex machina explanation on how ME works to begin with. The Mass Relays themselves are improbable as all hell, but we can except them because... nostalgia? Because FTL is an accepted Sci-fi trope? If you believe that then you've been conditioned too much, while at the same time lacking in imagination.
If the game takes place hundreds of years into the future how is it impossible? Technological advances plus loads of Reaper tech... sounds plausible to me.
List a few non over used sci fi trops? Story content is much like guitar chords, there are only so many combos and they get used over and over again.
The move to a new galaxy is just fine and dandy to me. The last game of the last series set out a few major massive constraints that a team would have to follow if they 'stuck to it'. Including all major constraints is simply not feasible, so you either choose one and tick off most of your audeicne or go you totally new.
Sci fi is all about hand waving. At what point does one think certain tech is fine and other tech is outlandish or not feasible? Almost everything in sci fi is feasible, it is just that people institute opinions of likes and dislikes and try and work those into being feasible or not?
And I think that is exactly what you are doing in your post.
this your opinion cant be taken seriously and the thread title should be i hate andromeda the thread as that is the only thing that has been noted at all
Today's reveal confirmed Bioware's continued dependency on taking overused sci-fi tropes and implementing them as plot devices in order to handwave/disregard the previously established universe.
Continued dependency?
They have other sci fi sequels that I don't know about? 
Because it's in Andromeda? You don't know how or why they are there. Why don't you wait a little before making that statement.
Sometimes the bait is worth taking. Having gotten back from AnimeNEXT I've been staaaarving for a meal.
Continued dependency?
They have other sci fi sequels that I don't know about?
ME2 and ME3.
I think opinions are rather like a certain aperture of the human body through which solid waste is expelled. We have zero dialogue to judge, zero actual story to judge, and some Johnny Cash to listen to while watching a short trailer (I'm good with the Johnny Cash there btw).
Why don't you come back with an illuminating critique of everything wrong with the game's writing when there's actually a game out to judge. *rolleyes*
I thought everyone new by now that the game would have to be set in a new universe after Mass Effect 3
It's a real shame they decided to subtitle the game after the galaxy that instigated the Vietnam War.
List a few non over used sci fi trops? Story content is much like guitar chords, there are only so many combos and they get used over and over again.
The move to a new galaxy is just fine and dandy to me. The last game of the last series set out a few major massive constraints that a team would have to follow if they 'stuck to it'. Including all major constraints is simply not feasible, so you either choose one and tick off most of your audeicne or go you totally new.
Sci fi is all about hand waving. At what point does one think certain tech is fine and other tech is outlandish or not feasible? Almost everything in sci fi is feasible, it is just that people institute opinions of likes and dislikes and try and work those into being feasible or not?
And I think that is exactly what you are doing in your post.
It is true that many sci fi stories hand wave things regarding RL in order to establish what is and isn't possible with the technology within the fictional setting.
However, the genre is not about handwaving what has been previously established as the foundation of any specific fictional universe. It's poor practice and any writer worth his/her salt knows that's just plain and simple common sense.
Mass Effect was a series about a psychic super soldier and their blue space babe girlfriend ( 
Liara) trying to stop mind-controlling space squids from destroying the galaxy.
It was always silly.
Apparently Walters is back. So what common sense are you expecting exactly?
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